About hindi movie madras cafe

Madras Cafe is an upcoming Indian political espionage thriller film directed by Shoojit Sircar and starring John Abraham, Nargis Fakhri and Rashi Khanna in lead roles. The film is set in the late 80s and early 1990s, during the time of Sri Lankan civil war and the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. The film was earlier titled Jaffna after the northern Sri Lankan city.

It is set to release on August 23. The trailer was released on July 12, 2013.

As per John Abraham, "Madras Cafe brings us closer to what changed the political history of India."

The film, set in India and Sri Lanka, is a political spy thriller set against backdrop of the Sri Lankan civil war. Vikram Singh (John Abraham) is an Indian Army special officer who is appointed by the intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing to conduct covert operations in Sri Lanka shortly after Indian Peace-Keeping Force was forced to withdraw. As he journeys to Sri Lanka, with the intention of disrupting a rebel group, he discovers the larger issue. There he meets a British journalist (Jaya) who wants to reveal the truth about the civil war, and in the process he uncovers a conspiracy.

Cast

• John Abraham - Vikram Singh (Indian army officer appointed by the Research and Analysis Wing to carry out operations in Jaffna). Singh is fictitious, Sircar said he had “used real references, portrayed rebel groups, revolutionary freedom fighters, Indian Peace Keeping Forces (and) shown how India got involved and the chaos”. "I didn’t want to make glitzy thriller like Ek Tha Tiger or Agent Vinod, which seem inspired by the Bond template. I want to show that intelligence officers are ordinary people who live amongst us. It is only that they have to solve issues where national security is at stake,” says Sircar. Sircar says he needed an actor who can easily get lost in the crowd but with John it seems next to impossible. “The role also requires a certain level of physicality and John Abraham has worked for the role. I agree this is a new territory for him but I think he has pitched it right. Let’s see how the audiences take him.”
• Nargis Fakhri - Jaya (a British war correspondent in Sri Lanka) (inspired by many war correspondents, including Anita Pratap) As for Nargis, Sircar says her voice hasn’t been dubbed. “Nargis Fakhri is playing foreign war correspondent. I needed a girl who looks Indian journalist but has an accent so there is no chance that audience will remember her Rockstar performance while watching Madras Café. She will converse in English and she is familiar with the language,” says Sircar.
• Rashi Khanna - Ruby Singh- wife of Singh
• Ajay Rathnam - Anna (leader of fictitious rebel group LTF ) - closely resembling Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam leader Velupillai Prabhakaran
• Leena Maria Paul - a Tamil rebel
• Tinu Menachery- a Tamil rebel
• Siddharth Basu - Robin Dutt, a key bureaucrat in Research and Analysis Wing.
• Agnello Dias - a Sri Lankan minister
• Piyush Pandey - a cabinet secretary of India
• Diban 

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